FORTES is leaving the building...

... and you will from now on meet me on www.feliciafortes.com. Finally I have a site for both blog and portfolio. So this is my farewell post to Hours with Fortes.

Close to nature

There's an expression: "Med naturen inpå knuten" (kind of "With nature just around the corner"). It's often used when selling estates in the fancy suburbs. I grew up in the ugly suburb, Bergsjön. The only good thing there was nature. Without nature it would've been a place suitable for a post apocalypse movie set.

My loverboy

So, I made a picture of my dear husband, Dragan. Lovely!

Traces of a Diary: Marco Martins och André Príncipe

So, now I've hosted the first Q&A at this years Goteborg International Film Festival. I met Marco Martins and André Príncipe, the directors behind Traces of a Diary, a documentary about japanese photographers working in the tradition of photobooks like Nobuyoshi Araki, Hiromix and Yoshiyuki Kohei. It was a great start of the working days at the festival with these two really nice and intelligent people charing their thaughts and experiences.

Dreaming of wobbling joints

Some dreams continue to come back. Like my dream with the knees that just doesn't cooperate.

The backstory: At the age of ten I suddenly grew much taller within a short period. It resulted in ace and insecurity. The legs didn't obey me. That and the heavy amount of dance training which I was involved in became an unlucky combination. I exercised every weekday after school (ballet, step, modern, jazz and acrobatics) but after crying at several classes I told my mother that I wanted to cut down on them. The first classes I wanted to skip was ballet. The teacher was rather mean and she always told me not to cry...

Growing hope

Come on!